Help on Disk Cloning/Ghosting/imaging...

Michael Fuckner michael at fuckner.net
Wed Apr 23 07:19:24 UTC 2008


chilo wrote:

 > How can I reproduce my system to another box with the same
 > configuration?

> Is there a third party software like "Ghost" in Freebsd? if so how to use it?

You should take a look at the commands dump and restore (for UFS)- or 
zfs send/ receive for ZFS.

Howto use:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backup-basics.html

It is a little bit problematic with HW-Raid. You have to setup HW-Raid 
on the destination machine and clone to this raidset.

Regards,
  Michael!


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